Brain Candy

Feed Your Brain Tastier than a twizzler yet more protein-packed than a spinach smoothie, Brain Candy is guaranteed to entertain your brain--even as it reveals hundreds of secrets behind what's driving that electric noodle inside your skull. These delicious and nutritious pages are packed with bits of bite-sized goodness swiped from the bleeding edge of brain science (including the reason why reading these words is changing your hippocampus at this very moment ) Shelved alongside these succulent neurological nuggets are challenging puzzles and paradoxes, eye-opening perception tests and hacks, fiendish personality quizzes and genius testers, and a grab bag of recurring treats including Eye Hacks, Algebraic Eight Ball, iDread, Wild Kingdom, and Logic of Illogic. Should you look between these covers and inhale the deliciously cherry-flavored scents of knowledge within, you will grow your grey matter while discovering: - Why you should be writing bad poetry

- The simple keys to brain training

- What trust smells like

- The origins of human morality

- Why expensive wine always tastes better

- The truth about brain sweat

- How your diet might be making you dumb

- The secrets of game theory

- Why economists hate psychology

- The mental benefits of coffee and cigarettes

- How to really spot a liar

- Why you can't make me eat pie

- The benefits of daydreaming

- Four simple secrets to persuasion

- Why your barin's fzzuy ligoc alowls you to raed this

- How to brainwash friends and family

- The science of body language

- What pigeons know about art ...And much, much more.